What is an infeed conveyor?

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What is an outfeed conveyor?

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What is the typical lifecycle of your baler infeed conveyors?

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Do you offer spare parts and replacement belts for baler infeed conveyors?

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Can your conveyors be customized with features such as cleats, skirts, and guards?

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Are your conveyors easy to integrate with existing equipment?

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What is the lead time for a custom Fluent conveyor system?

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How are your conveyors shipped to customers?

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Can I order a Fluent conveyor in any color of my choosing?

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Conveyor systems for baler infeed applications

Conveyor options

We can customize our conveyors to match your baling application:

Incline conveyors: 0–60 degree inclines
Compliance: meets local codes and standards
Electrical: UL-listed panels, components, and wiring
Dimensions: custom lengths, widths, and heights
Platforms: steel catwalks and operator platforms
Transition hoppers: custom infeed and discharge hoppers
Structural steel: support frames, stairs, mezzanines

We can build a custom conveyor to your exact specifications.

Conveyor specifications

We design and build each conveyor for maintenance, convenience, longevity, and performance:

Capacities: up to 25,000 lb chain pull
Drives: shaft-mounted gear motors, 5–25 hp
Motors: TEFC, stainless steel, chemical duty options
Belt width: 18–60 inches
Belt types: rubber, PVC, urethane, modular plastic
Belt accessories: cleats, side skirts, training idlers
Speed: 50–400 ft/min variable speed via VFD
Rollers: impact rollers with 3, 4, or 5 inch diameters
Frames: formed steel channel, boxed supports
Safety: pull cords, e-stops, dead man plates
Controls: PLC, touchscreen HMI, remote access control panels

Do you need additional customization? Our engineering team can build an innovative solution to meet your requirements.

Baler infeed applications

Many industries use balers (and baler infeed conveyors):

Recycling: conveyors move sorted recyclables to a baler for compaction and binding.
Waste management: personnel sort single-stream trash and send recyclables and waste to separate baler feed systems for processing.

Other industries: manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, and other industries produce large volumes of compactable waste and utilize balers—and baler infeed conveyors—to process it.

Do you need a conveyor solution?

We build our conveyors to handle the most extreme applications, including scrap, recycling, waste, and other harsh environments.